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No more EM here. I'm avoiding even non-US/Canada developed Markets. My fund Managers have me in dev. Europe, a bit: just 0.66% in Britain, 3.39% of portf. on the continent. My lone exception is TS Tenaris: Oil Country Tubular Goods. Still a tiny hol…
Is this article from Dec. '23 the source of the info?
https://citywire.com/wealth-manager/news/matthews-asia-s-pacific-equity-fund-under-review-as-veteran-exits/a2432941
(paywall.)
Giggle. ..... I'll take a "Sgt. Schultz" on that one. I know nothing, I see nothing!
Boeing's Head Honcho sat next to the door plug on the re-authorized first flight.
I'm looking at Amer. Air for a trip back East. They show no 737 Max planes on on…
...I am finding out very recently, (in just the past couple of days) that TRP brokerage is heavily dependent on Pershing, since TRP has farmed out those applicable functions to that other firm. Even the trading platform "belongs" to Pershing.... Cus…
Certainly doing very well, but we are just still in the first inning. The portfolio is finally posted. If someone was looking for a different sort of animal compared to PRWCX, they'll be disappointed. But the allocation, as advertised and expected, …
@Crash -according to my Fidelity quote for FALN:
FALN announced distribution of $0.1223 on 02/01/2024
Announce date 02/01/2024
Record date 02/02/2024
Pay date 02/07/2024
So no games.
I believe you. :)
I never got the memo, though. Communication.…
Among my funds only:
PRWCX leads.
BRUFX fell to the bottom of the pile in '23, but is positive now, in early '24, by just a fraction.
But junk bond fund TUHYX is doing even better than BRUFX.
Of course, just after I got into FALN, it fell.
Fund …
02 Feb. '24: YTD down -0.84%
Best performer: ET Energy Transfer (oil/gas midstream.)
Laggards: BHB (regional bank) and TS (oil country tubular goods.)
Blame it on Punxsutawney Phil. I saw no news from him today.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-u…
+1.
Won't change anything for me.
(Side note: I believe I shall stay away from Real Estate in the future. I can't seem to ever win that game. "Straight" stocks and bonds for me. And FUNDS, of course.)
Waiting for my usual 4th day of the month to see if I want to nibble anywhere. The 3rd of each month, TRP buys some PRTXX (sweep) directly out of the checking account. Looks like yesterday's sell-off has climbed half-way back in the portfolio. My ju…
More bad news: China's monthly manufacturing = down. Four straight months.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/31/china-pmi-manufacturing-activity-shrank-for-4th-straight-month-in-january.html
Some female talking head on tv recently posited that China is becoming uninvestable. Regardless of economics, the politics would dictate a steer-clear stance, I'd say. I have never been to the Mainland, but have seen Hong Kong and Macau. The Beijing…
About wonderful Fani: can anyone else (or her romantic partner?) ever be as convincing and cogent in presenting the case as either of them could do it? That's what is melting my sox. Idiot twit.
And all of this is why I won't touch Amazon with a 10-foot pole, or even a 12-foot swede. The companies I love to hate. Like Wells Fargo and all of the other banksters.
He can appeal the Carroll ruling, but I just saw this report which says he must deposit the $83.3M with the court. This tastes delicious!
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cash-appeal-trump-has-to-post-83-3-million-while-fighting-e-jean-carrolls-jur…
@Crash. We all know you are into your PSTL but according to Portfolio Visualizer it has a CAGR of 1.65 % 1/20 thru 12/23. It also has a higher standard dev than the S&P 500 as well as a higher Max Drawdown. What’s the attraction?
I confes…
I was at school in Spokane. I watched it over and over, in disbelief. We lost 7 of the best and the brightest. Some involved in the decision to launch (or not) were in fact raising alarm bells. They were ignored.
My recent superior experience dealing with USPS vs FedEx & UPS caused me to read posts about PSTL. Customer service comments about UPS are horrifying; I read to see if my experience is an outlier. UPS stock is doing alright relative to its ser…
Hmmmph. Between TRP, Vanguard and Fidelity websites, I think TRP is user-friendliest. But as mentioned often here, TRP customer service is smelly awful stinky bad. I've not encountered that myself, because I've never tried to do some of the stuff yo…
Additionally, The Guardian also reports that judge Kaplan told jurors “My advice to you is that you never disclose that you were on this jury, and I won’t say anything more about it.”
Sad commentary of where we are as a nation. The Godfather was j…
I had already started a separate thread on this item. I was pleased to see the dollar figure of the penalty awarded to Carroll. Talk about politicizing the Justice System. His own verbiage bullshit is Exhibit A. Straight out of the G. Orwell "1984" …
Volatility: The beta on FALN is 0.95, almost tracking the rest of the Market. That seems tolerable to me. I want to initiate a bond fund/ETF in my taxable account that will spin off dividends which I can then redeploy.
Barron's shows 5.3% yield, S…
Had TRP accounts for 25 years...the site sucks!!! Way harder to research and navigate that site than Fidelity!!! Glad I made that move!!! Consolidation is big help!
Glad your experience was what it was.
My experience of Fidelity's website is: Run …
